a quick catch up

Oh I am so sick of this weather!  The only upside is that a) my garden is looking lush and b) its a good excuse to stay inside and sew.

I havn't really been doing anything major, just little bits of things:

I have made some more of these, but have kind of come to a halt as I don't really have much of another colour to make any more: I want to go with red, so will put this to one side for now (and start buying red fabric!!)

I have been making a few more of my hexies (this is about half of them) and then playing around to see what I want to do with them: they look too much all sewn together, so I need to space them out, but still not sure where I am going with this project!

I got a fab book from the library the other day, 'Simply Stars, quilts that sparkle' that has some amazing quilt patterns with stars-a lot of them are paper pieced. I wondered if I could hand sew them as well, so decided to do a test run with some scraps.  Not sure what this will be made in to when done, or whether I really could do a whole quilt like this, but it is fun to do in the evenings when I'm watching telly

 And I am still hand quilting my mystery quilt - I really love this quilt. 

 I have gone around or through most of the stars now - with the exception of the big red and yellow one in the bottom right corner (not sure how to do that one)

 I am using a variagated perle cotton, which I really like, and just doing different things for different stars.  I am sewing yellow stars on the green border too, but not matter how I tried, I just couldn't get a good photo of that.

So, the rain is helping with my quilting too: I am plodding away slowly on different projects!